Sean O'Casey letters

Scope and Content

14 letters to Peter Newmark. Topics covered include: literary critics and criticism; the Communist Party; the Roman Catholic Church; plays and playwrights; and the writing of O'Casey's works and their publication and performance in Britain, Ireland and the USA. Individuals mentioned include: James Evershed Agate, Samuel Beckett, Ugo Betti, T S Eliot, Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Eugene O'Neill, George Orwell, John Osborne, Terence Rattigan, Jean-Paul Sartre, W B Yeats.

Arrangement

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Other Finding Aids

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Special Collections Reading Room. An item-level catalogue is attached to the catalogue on the Senate House Library catalogue, see: https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110031728.